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By Stephen Foster on May 3, 2013
First off, it’s also an Omnicom venture of course as Colin Gottlieb, boss of Omnicom media operations in EMEA, has bought an OMG stake in the business. But Eric Newnham, the former Kinetic boss and clearly a man who never sleeps, has been busy hiring anyone he can from Kinetic these past few months, latterly [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged Colin Gottlieb, Eric Newnham, kinetic, Nick Mawditt, posterscope, rapport, Steve Bond, talon
By Stephen Foster on February 22, 2013
Talking of naughtiness (or what may be construed as same – which we kind of are today) Japanese agency Absolute Territory PR has come up with a new wheeze – paying young Japanese women to apply stick-on tattoos to their legs. This involves the wearing of very short skirts. Over a thousand have signed up [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News, PR | Tagged absolute territory pr, Eric Newnham, green day, japan, japanese women, short skirts, stick-on ads, talon
By Stephen Foster on February 18, 2013
Eric Newnham’s new out of home operation Talon – backed by Omnicom Media Group – is making waves all over the place, not least in the wallets of a number of media and out of home professionals who may have thought their best years were behind them. Andy Tilley, newly-appointed ‘chief strategy officer’ at Talon, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged Andy Tilley, Chris O'Donnell, Eric Newnham, global commercial director, kinetic, omg, omnicom media group, posterscope, talon
By Stephen Foster on February 11, 2013
Which will put the cat among the pigeons in all sorts of places, not least Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP which used to employ Eric Newnham (left), boss of new out of home contender Talon, as CEO of Kinetic. Talon, which Newnham bought from City ad agency Ptarmigan, has got off to a flying start, chiefly [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Colin Gottlieb, Eric Newnham, kinetic, omnicom, omnicom media group, out of home, phd, Sir Martin Sorrell, talon, WPP
By Stephen Foster on February 8, 2013
Former Kinetic boss Eric Newnham has shaken up the out of home buying business no end by winning huge chunks of business for his UK indie Talon. Biggest client is Omnicom’s OMG; next big one might be one of Publicis Groupe’s Starcom or Zenith. Might Omnicom or PG decide to take out this impertinent outsider? [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged cannes, Eric Newnham, kinetic, Robin Williams, super bowl, talon
By Staff on February 8, 2013
Former Kinetic chief operating officer James Copley (left) has rejoined his long-time colleague Eric Newnham at new outdoor media buying contender Talon. Copley will be managing partner, effectively number two to majority shareholder Newnham. At Kinetic Copley was noted for his close relationships with the WPP-owned agency’s direct (as opposed to agency) clients. These included [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Eric Newnham, James Copley, kinetic, posterscope, Stuart Taylor, talon
By Stephen Foster on February 8, 2013
Former Kinetic worldwide boss Eric Newnham (left) is shaking up the UK out of home buying industry in a way it hasn’t seen for years: now leading UK media independent the7stars is set to join the rush to Newnham’s new company Talon. Aegis’s Posterscope and WPP’s Kinetic have carved up the UK industry between them [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Annie Rickard, Eric Newnham, havas media, Jerry Buhlmann, kinetic, omnicom media group, posterscope, Sir Martin Sorrell, talon, the7stars, walker media, WPP
By Staff on February 6, 2013
The London media world is agog with speculation about what will former Kinetic boss Eric Newnham (left) and his out of home buying company Talon do next? Latest is that Talon is about to follow its win of the £150m Omnicom Media Group outdoor business from Posterscope with business from Havas Media (formerly Media Planning [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, Eric Newnham, havas media, kinetic, omnicom media group, out of home, outdoor planning and buying, posterscope, talon, walker media
By Stephen Foster on January 31, 2013
This video has surfaced on YouTube purporting to describe the reaction of Dentsu-owned Postercope to Talon’s win of OMG’s humungous UK outdoor buying business – £150m or so. Dentsu bought media-buying independent Aegis for £3.2m last year and Posterscope, its outdoor buying business which has carved up the global market with WPP’s Kinetic over the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, dentsu, Eric Newnham, kinetic, omg, omnicom medis group, outdoor media buying, posterscope, talon, video, WPP, £150m account
By Stephen Foster on January 29, 2013
We predicted that former Kinetic boss Eric Newnham (left) would set up a real third force in UK (and maybe worldwide) out of home media planning and buying when he bought a majority stake in UK minnow Talon – and now he’s proved the point by winning OMG’s UK outdoor business from Aegis-owned Posterscope. Nobody, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Eric Newnham, kinetic, omg, omnicom, out of home, outdoor planning and buying, posterscope, talon, WPP, £150m account move
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